Start Here | Code Like It's 198x

Try a first session: choose a small activity, with notes for parents and teachers and a printable session sheet.

You can begin with a machine, a programming idea or a question. Choose what you want to do. The shared explanations are here when you need them; you do not have to complete them before starting a system track.

Make A Game

Choose a machine and start building

Browse the systems with lessons available and choose a language route. You can start here as a beginner; completing Foundations or another system track is not a prerequisite.

Find a system with lessons

Safe Cracker, a complete guessing game from the Commodore 64 BASIC lessons — Safe Cracker · Commodore 64 · BASIC. One of the games you can learn to build.

Explore Programming Ideas

Start with the programming concepts

Foundations uses pseudocode to explain instructions, variables, decisions and loops without choosing a machine or language. Follow its guided examples, or return when a lesson raises a question.

Explore The Basics

Understand How Programs Run

Look beneath the language

From the Metal explores programming choices through concrete machine behaviour. See why an approach helps, what it costs and where comparisons with modern systems have limits.

Read the programming essays

Explore Game-Making Ideas

Connect maths and game design

The Craft is developing shared explanations for game-making. Maths for Games and Game Feel have their first lessons published, with more sequences to follow.

Explore The Craft